Citation
(2014), "2013 Awards for Excellence", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 29 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-08-2013-0166
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2013 Awards for Excellence
Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Volume 29, Issue 1
The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
``Managerial action and resource-advantage theory: conceptual frameworks emanating from a positive theory of competition''
Shelby D. Hunt
Department of Marketing, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Sreedhar Madhavaram
Department of Marketing, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that conceptual frameworks developed from a general theory of competition, i.e. resource-advantage (R-A) theory, can facilitate managerial action.
Design/methodology/approach - After a brief overview of resource-advantage (R-A) theory, five conceptual frameworks are developed and offered for the purposes of managerial action.
Findings - This paper identifies several conceptual frameworks and after noting that conceptual frameworks that do not have positive theoretical foundations may not be as useful as those that do, develops five conceptual frameworks that are based on R-A theory.
Practical implications - The conceptual frameworks developed in this paper have great potential for facilitating managerial action.
Originality/value - Conceptual frameworks that have positive theoretical foundations can be very useful for practitioners. In fact, the frameworks proposed in this paper can replace frameworks that are currently in use for managerial action.
Keywords Conceptual frameworks, Firm Resources and External Environment framework, Managerial action, Managers, Resource management, Resource-advantage theory
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/08858621211257356
This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 7, 2012, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award
``Return on relationships: conceptual understanding and measurement of mutual gains from relational business engagements''
Christian Grönroos, Pekka Helle
This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 5, 2012, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
``The effect of customer relationship management adoption in business-to-business markets''
U. Zeynep Ata, Aysegul Toker
This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 6, 2012, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
``Strategic account management programs: alignment of design elements and management practices''
Kaj Storbacka
This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 4, 2012, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
Outstanding Reviewer
Dr Harold Biong